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Anáil an Bhéil Bheo

Author : Nessa Cronin,John Eastlake
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443803878

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Anáil an Bhéil Bheo by Nessa Cronin,John Eastlake Pdf

Anáil an Bhéil Bheo brings together a stimulating range of interdisciplinary essays considering the connections between orality and modern Irish culture. From literature to song, folklore to the visual arts, contributors examine not only the connections between oral and textual traditions in Ireland, but also the theoretical concept of “orality” itself and the corresponding significance of oral texts in Irish society. Featuring work by emerging scholars in the fields of history, literature, folklore, music, women’s studies, film and theatre studies and disciplines contributing to Irish Studies, this multifaceted volume also includes contributions from scholars long engaged with issues of orality such as Gearóid Ó Crualaoich and Henry Glassie.

Children's Literature Collections

Author : Keith O'Sullivan,Pádraic Whyte
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137597571

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Children's Literature Collections by Keith O'Sullivan,Pádraic Whyte Pdf

This book provides scholars, both national and international, with a basis for advanced research in children’s literature in collections. Examining books for children published across five centuries, gathered from the collections in Dublin, this unique volume advances causes in collecting, librarianship, education, and children’s literature studies more generally. It facilitates processes of discovery and recovery that present various pathways for researchers with diverse interests in children’s books to engage with collections. From book histories, through bookselling, information on collectors, and histories of education to close text analyses, it is evident that there are various approaches to researching collections. In this volume, three dominant approaches emerge: history and canonicity, author and text, ideals and institutions. Through its focus on varied materials, from fiction to textbooks, this volume illuminates how cities can articulate a vision of children's literature through particular collections and institutional practices.

Redefinitions of Irish Identity

Author : Irene Gilsenan Nordin,Carmen Zamorano Llena
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 3039115588

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Redefinitions of Irish Identity by Irene Gilsenan Nordin,Carmen Zamorano Llena Pdf

This collection of essays aims to provide new insights into the debate on postnationalism in Ireland from the perspective of narrative writing.

The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland

Author : Eugenio F. Biagini,Mary E. Daly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107095588

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The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland by Eugenio F. Biagini,Mary E. Daly Pdf

This is the first textbook on the history of modern Ireland to adopt a social history perspective. Written by an international team of leading scholars, it draws on a wide range of disciplinary approaches and consistently sets Irish developments in a wider European and global context.

The Stars of Ballymenone

Author : Henry Glassie
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253022622

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The Stars of Ballymenone by Henry Glassie Pdf

In the time of the Troubles, when bombs blew through the night and soldiers prowled down the roads, Henry Glassie came to the Irish borderland to learn how country people endure through history. He settled into the farming community of Ballymenone, beside Lough Erne in the County Fermanagh, and listened to the old people. For a decade he heard and recorded the stories and songs in which they outlined their culture, recounted their history, and pictured their world. In their view, their world was one of love, defeat, and uncertainty, demanding the virtues of endurance: faith, bravery, and wit. Glassie’s task in this book is to set the scene, to sketch the backdrop and clear the stage, so that Hugh Nolan and Michael Boyle, Peter Flanagan, Ellen Cutler, and their neighbors can tell their own tale, which explains their conditions and converts them into a tragedy of conflict and a comedy of the absurd. It gathers the saints and warriors, and celebrates the stars whose wit enabled endurance in days of violence and deprivation. With patience and respect, Glassie describes life in a time and a place exactly like no other, and yet Ballymenone is like a thousand other places where people work on the land during the day and tell their own tales at night, forgotten, while the men of power fill the newspapers and history books by sending poor boys out to be killed. The Stars of Ballymenone is an integrated analysis of the complete repertory of verbal art from a rural community where storytelling and singing of quality remained a part of daily life.

Crisis and Contemporary Poetry

Author : A. Karhio,S. Crosson,C. Armstrong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230306097

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Crisis and Contemporary Poetry by A. Karhio,S. Crosson,C. Armstrong Pdf

What are the means available to poetry to address crisis and how can both poets and critics meet the conflicts and challenges they face? This collection of essays addresses poetic and critical responses to the various crises encountered by contemporary writers and our society, from the Holocaust to the ecological crisis.

The Critical Thought of W. B. Yeats

Author : Wit Pietrzak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319600895

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The Critical Thought of W. B. Yeats by Wit Pietrzak Pdf

This book focuses on W. B. Yeats’s critical writings, an aspect of his oeuvre which has been given limited treatment so far. It traces his critical work from his earliest articles, through to his occult treatises, and all the way to his last pamphlets, in which he sought to delineate the idea of a literary culture: a community of people willing to credit poetry with the central role in imagining and organising social praxis throughout society. The chapters of this study investigate the contexts in which Yeats’s thought developed, his many disputes over the shape of Irish cultural politics, the future of poetry and the place literature occupies in the world. What transpires is an image of Yeats who is strung between the impulses of faith in the existence of a supernatural order and ironic scepticism as to the possibility of ever capturing that order in language. This study is distinguished by its grounding of Yeats's critical agenda in a broader context through textual analysis. In addition, it organises and systematises his conceptions of poetry and its social role through its approach to his criticism as a fully-fledged area of his artistic practice. The monograph has been written within the framework of the project financed by The National Science Centre, Cracow, Poland, pursuant to the decision number DEC-2013/09/D/HS2/02782.

Irish Migrants in New Communities

Author : Mícheál Ó hAodha,Máirtín Ó Catháin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739173831

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Irish Migrants in New Communities by Mícheál Ó hAodha,Máirtín Ó Catháin Pdf

Irish migrants in new communities: Seeking the Fair Land? comprises the second collection of essays by these editors exploring fresh aspects and perspectives on the subject of the Irish diaspora. This volume, edited by Máirtín Ó Catháin and Mícheál Ó hAodha, develops many of the oral history themes of the first book and concentrates more on issues surrounding the adaptation of migrants to new or host environments and cultures. These new places often have a jarring effect, as well as a welcoming air, and the Irish bring their own interpretations, hostilities, and suspicions, all of which are explored in a fascinating and original number of new perspectives.

Graveyard Clay

Author : Máirtín Ó Cadhain
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Cemeteries
ISBN : 9780300203769

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Graveyard Clay by Máirtín Ó Cadhain Pdf

In an Irish graveyard, the corpses are distracted by local jealousies and petty disputes assuming global importance. Their banter is full of news of above-ground happenings, received from the recently arrived. As we listen in on the gossip, rumors, backbiting, complaining, and obsessing of the local community, we learn that in the afterlife the same old life goes on beneath the sod.--

Celebrity, Performance, Reception

Author : David Worrall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107435971

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Celebrity, Performance, Reception by David Worrall Pdf

By 1800 London had as many theatre seats for sale as the city's population. This was the start of the capital's rise as a centre for performing arts. Bringing to life a period of extraordinary theatrical vitality, David Worrall re-examines the beginnings of celebrity culture amidst a monopolistic commercial theatrical marketplace. The book presents an innovative transposition of social assemblage theory into performance history. It argues that the cultural meaning of drama changes with every change in the performance location. This theoretical model is applied to a wide range of archival materials including censors' manuscripts, theatre ledger books, performance schedules, unfamiliar play texts and rare printed sources. By examining prompters' records, box office receipts and benefit night takings, the study questions the status of David Garrick, Sarah Siddons and Edmund Kean, and recovers the neglected actress, Elizabeth Younge, and her importance to Edmund Burke.

Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures

Author : Sarah Dunnigan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748645411

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Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures by Sarah Dunnigan Pdf

This collection of essays explores the historical importance and imaginative richness of Scotland's extensive contribution to modes of traditional culture and expression: ballads, tales and storytelling, and song. Its underlying aim is to bring about a more dynamic and inclusive understanding of Scottish culture. Rooted in literary history and both comparative and interdisciplinary in scope, the volume covers the key aspects and genres of traditional literature, including the Gaelic tradition, from the medieval period to the present. Key theoretical and conceptual issues raised by the historical analysis of Scotland's rich store of ballad, song, and folk narrative are discussed in separate chapters. The volume also explores why and how Scottish literary writers have been inspired by traditional genres, modes, and motifs, and the intermingling of folk and literary traditions in writers such as Burns, Scott, and Hogg. It also uncovers the folkloric and mythopoetic materials of early Scottish literature, and the vitality of neglected aspects of Scottish popular culture.

Thinking Continental

Author : Susan Naramore Maher,Tom Lynch,Drucilla Wall,O. Alan Weltzien
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781496202833

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Thinking Continental by Susan Naramore Maher,Tom Lynch,Drucilla Wall,O. Alan Weltzien Pdf

In response to the growing scale and complexity of environmental threats, this volume collects articles, essays, personal narratives, and poems by more than forty authors in conversation about “thinking continental”—connecting local and personal landscapes to universal systems and processes—to articulate the concept of a global or planetary citizenship. Reckoning with the larger matrix of biome, region, continent, hemisphere, ocean, and planet has become necessary as environmental challenges require the insights not only of scientists but also of poets, humanists, and social scientists. Thinking Continental braids together abstract approaches with strands of more-personal narrative and poetry, showing how our imaginations can encompass the planetary while also being true to our own concrete life experiences in the here and now.

Engendering Ireland

Author : Rebecca Barr,Sarah-Anne Buckley,Laura Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443883078

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Engendering Ireland by Rebecca Barr,Sarah-Anne Buckley,Laura Kelly Pdf

Engendering Ireland is a collection of ten essays showcasing the importance of gender in a variety of disciplines. These essays interrogate gender as a concept which encompasses both masculinity and femininity, and which permeates history and literature, culture and society in the modern period. The collection includes historical research which situates Irish women workers within an international economic context; textual analysis which sheds light on the effects of modernity on the home and rising female expectations in the post-war era; the rediscovery of significant Irish women modernists such as Mary Devenport O’Neill; and changing representations of masculinity, race, ethnicity and interculturalism in modern Irish theatre. Each of these ten essays provides a thought-provoking picture of the complex and hitherto unrecognised roles gender has played in Ireland over the last century. While each of these chapters offers a fresh perspective on familiar themes in Irish gender studies, they also illustrate the importance and relevance of gender studies to contemporary debates in Irish society.

Literacy, Language and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Author : Rebecca Anne Barr,Sarah-Anne Buckley,Muireann O'Cinneide
Publisher : Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 9781786942081

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Literacy, Language and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by Rebecca Anne Barr,Sarah-Anne Buckley,Muireann O'Cinneide Pdf

This volume of essays explores the multiple forms and functions of reading and writing in nineteenth-century Ireland. This century saw a dramatic transition in literacy levels and in the education and language practices of the Irish population, yet the processes and full significance of these transitions remains critically under explored. This book traces how understandings of literacy and language shaped national and transnational discourses of cultural identity, and the different reading communities produced by questions of language, religion, status, education and audience. Essays are gathered under four main areas of analysis: Literacy and Bilingualism; Periodicals and their readers; Translation, transmission and transnational literacies; Visual literacies. Through these sections, the authors offer a range of understandings of the ways in which Irish readers and writers interpreted and communicated their worlds.

The Vanishing World of The Islandman

Author : Máiréad Nic Craith
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030257750

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The Vanishing World of The Islandman by Máiréad Nic Craith Pdf

Exploring An t-Oileánach (anglicised as The Islandman), an indigenous Irish-language memoir written by Tomás Ó Criomhthain (Tomás O'Crohan), Máiréad Nic Craith charts the development of Ó Criomhthain as an author; the writing, illustration, and publication of the memoir in Irish; and the reaction to its portrayal of an authentic, Gaelic lifestyle in Ireland. As she probes the appeal of an island fisherman’s century-old life-story to readers in several languages—considering the memoir’s global reception in human, literary and artistic terms—Nic Craith uncovers the indelible marks of Ó Criomhthain’s writing closer to home: the Blasket Island Interpretive Centre, which seeks to institutionalize the experience evoked by the memoir, and a widespread writerly habit amongst the diasporic population of the Island. Through the overlapping frames of literary analysis, archival work, interviews, and ethnographic examination, nostalgia emerges and re-emerges as a central theme, expressed in different ways by the young Irish state, by Irish-American descendants of Blasket Islanders in the US today, by anthropologists, and beyond.